Key result
Heart failure primarily impairs physical health-related quality of life among patients in Jordan.
Why the study?
Most studies have evaluated health-related quality of life in heart failure objectively using quantitative designs, leaving subjective patient perspectives unclear, particularly in developing countries with increasing incidence.
Qualitative analysis reveals that the physical domain is the most significantly affected aspect of health-related quality of life for heart failure patients in Jordan.
May support prioritizing physical HRQoL assessment in Jordanian HF patients; leaves open whether targeted interventions improve outcomes.
BACKGROUND: Many studies described Health-Related Quality of Life among patients with Heart Failure objectively and statistically using quantitative designs in developed and developing countries. Despite the significance of these studies, some aspects remained unclear and not well understood because Health-Related Quality of Life is subjective in nature. Therefore, exploring Health-Related Quality of Life from patients’ perspectives, especially in developing countries where the incidence is increasing, reveals how the disease will affect their lives and might help in identifying interventions to improve it. METHODS: The aim of this qualitative study was to provide an understanding of the Health-Related Quality of Life from the perspectives of patients diagnosed with Heart Failure recruited purposefully from the cardiac clinics of public and private hospitals in Amman, Jordan. Data was generated using face-to-face semi-structured interviews, audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim, and analyzed using thematic analysis. RESULTS: Three major themes were identified: (1) Perceptions of Heart Failure as a disease; (2) Perceptions of Heart Failure impact on patients' Health-Related Quality of Life domains (physical, psychosocial, spiritual, cognitive and economic); and (3) Recommended strategies to enhance Health-Related Quality of Life. CONCLUSION: Physical domain was the most affected domain in the Health-Related Quality of Life of patients with Heart Failure. It is highly recommended that healthcare professionals find solutions to improve the physical domain of these patients, which would be reflected in the other domains and improve the Health-Related Quality of Life.
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Saifan et al. (2023) studied Heart Failure. Heart failure primarily impacted the physical domain of health-related quality of life among patients in Jordan, highlighting the need for targeted interventions to improve physical well-being.
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